My Message close
GAME JOBS
Latest Blogs
spacer View All     Post     RSS spacer
 
May 24, 2013
 
Beer and Diversity
 
Selling Games
 
Want To Help Stop Youth Cyberbullying? Let Your Kids Raid More.
 
Tenets of Videodreams, Part 1: Exploration
 
We're Indie, we like Microsoft. Too Controversial? [31]
spacer
Latest Jobs
spacer View All     Post a Job     RSS spacer
 
May 24, 2013
 
Gameloft
Game Designer
 
Electronic Arts - EA PLAY
Gameplay Engineer
 
Airtight Games
Programmer
 
DoubleDown Interactive
Software Game Developer
 
Autodesk, Inc
Senior Principal Engineer - 2D Engine
 
Kabam
Backend Game Engineer
spacer
Latest Press Releases
spacer View All     RSS spacer
 
May 24, 2013
 
12 Million Downloads
after 1 Year in the
AppStore
 
Global Games Market Grows
6% to $70.4bn in 2013
 
Sharpen Your Battle Axes
and Prepare to
Pillage!...
 
Active Soccer - Indiegogo
campaign
 
Fashion Party Dress Up
Press Release
spacer
About
spacer Editor-In-Chief:
Kris Graft
Blog Director:
Christian Nutt
Senior Contributing Editor:
Brandon Sheffield
News Editors:
Mike Rose, Kris Ligman
Editors-At-Large:
Leigh Alexander, Chris Morris
Advertising:
Jennifer Sulik
Recruitment:
Gina Gross
Education:
Gillian Crowley
 
Contact Gamasutra
 
Report a Problem
 
Submit News
 
Comment Guidelines
Sponsor

 
 Minecraft  becomes the biggest selling XBLA game with 2M purchases
Minecraft becomes the biggest selling XBLA game with 2M purchases
 

June 4, 2012   |   By Eric Caoili

Comments Post A Comment

More: Console/PC, Indie, Business/Marketing





Newsbrief: Less than a month after its release, Mojang and 4J Studios' Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is already the biggest selling game on Xbox Live Arcade (based on revenue) after moving more than 2 million copies.

Priced higher than most XBLA titles at $20, the Microsoft-published game managed to outsell The Behemoth's 2008 multiplayer beat'em up Castle Crashers, which has sold 2.6 million copies on XBLA but is priced at $15.

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition as already outsold the mobile versions of Mojang's indie game, which have pushed a total of 1 million copies. The open-world sandbox game's PC version has sold more than 5 million copies.
 
 
Top Stories

image
Blog: We're indie, we like Microsoft. So what?
image
Xbox One preowned rumors batter GameStop shares
image
Blog: Theme and craft, games and art
image
Xbox One: A flawed plan, well-executed


   
 
Comments


none
 
Comment:
 




 
UBM Tech